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Sex trafficking: Pimps' sentences range from probation to life

The following men were arrested in Reno in recent years and charged in state or federal courts with pandering or sex trafficking. Several were charged with trafficking or pandering juvenile girls as young as 12 years old.

Sex trafficking: Pimps' sentences range from probation to life

Adam Scott, 26, was indicted by a Reno federal grand jury related to separate cases. One case he is accused of a shooting on an Indian reservation. In the second, he allegedly was involved in human sex trafficking with two minors. Washoe County jail booking photo.(Photo: Washoe County jail)

Nashon Porter: Indicted in December 2011 on one count of transporting a 12-year-old from California to Reno to work as a prostitute. Porter bought her a bus ticket from Stockton, Calif., to Reno. Once in Reno, he had sex with her, got her a hotel room and placed an ad on an Internet site offering the girl for prostitution. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced on July 8 to five years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release.

Adam Scott: Scott was indicted in May 2012 on one count of transporting a minor for prostitution and two counts of sex trafficking a minor by force. In July 2010, he brought a juvenile girl from California to Reno and forced her to work as a prostitute from July 2010 through August 2011, according to the indictment. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. A hearing is set for July 25 before U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks.

Hugo Sanchez: A Reno gang member, Sanchez was arrested in 2012 on charges of pandering two Carson City sisters, ages 12 and 14. He pleaded guilty to charges of lewdness with a minor under 14, pandering and statutory sexual seduction. The older girl testified at his sentencing that she gave Sanchez half her earnings from working as a prostitute in downtown Reno. Washoe District Judge Patrick Flanagan sentenced Sanchez on Nov. 28 to two life prison terms. He has appealed the sentence, claiming it was extreme.

Kareem Hall: Hall, aka Cody Franklin, was charged in June 2012 with two counts of felony pandering, but prosecutors were not able to proceed because one of the women would not cooperate and the other disappeared. They settled on one misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace, and he was fined $1,000.

Hugo Sanchez, 22, of Reno, was sentenced Nov. 28 to two life in prison terms for pandering a 14-year-old Carson City girl, and having sex with her and her 12-year-old sister.(Photo: Washoe County jail)

Dhakwan Said Muhammad: During a 2012 sting operation, Reno police apprehended Dhakwan Muhammad with a 17-year-old girl in his car. The girl told police that she had sex with the man and that he took photos of her naked to post on the Internet. Inside his car, they found 49 grams of marijuana. He was charged with pandering and possession of drugs. He pleaded guilty to one count of attempted possession of drugs for sale. The Nevada Department of Corrections listed him as on parole as of January.

Vernon McCullum III: A federal grand jury indicted McCullum in January on a sex trafficking charge for allegedly transporting a 15-year-old girl from Bakersfield, Calif., to Reno to work as a prostitute. His trial in U.S. District Court in Reno is set for Aug. 20.

Roosevelt Demetrius Vonner: Reno police arrested Vonner on Feb. 26 after he allegedly approached a woman, her daughter and nephew with a handgun with an extended magazine. According to the woman, Vonner had been forcing her to work for him as a prostitute. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and pandering. He was scheduled to be arraigned in Washoe District Court this month.

Jessie Lonza Nathaniel Burns: Burns was arrested in April and charged with prostituting his girlfriend and with domestic battery and child abuse of their 1-month-old infant. He was convicted of being a pimp, and on July 3 he was sentenced in Washoe District Court to one year to 32 months in prison.

Jose Alejandro Figueroa: In December 2011, he was arrested for acting as a pimp. He pleaded guilty in August 2012 and was sentenced in Washoe District Court to one year in jail, but the judge suspended the jail term and placed Figueroa on probation for 36 months. He was arrested in April for drunken driving and the judge revoked his probation.

Jose Alejandro Figueroa, 26, of Reno arrested by the Sparks Police Department on March 16, 2012, on suspicion of pandering and living from the earnings of prostitution.(Photo: Washoe County jail)

Justin R. Howard: Reno police arrested Howard on Jan. 23 and charged him with receiving earnings of a prostitute. He pleaded guilty to one charge receiving money from a prostitute and was sentenced on June 11 by Washoe District Judge Scott Freeman to one to three years in prison.

Vernon McCullum III, also known as 'Fifth,' was indicted on Wednesday and is charged with one count of illegal transportation of a minor for prostitution or other illegal sexual activity.(Photo: Washoe County jail)